Job Overview
We have a new fantastic opportunity come up for a Sous Chef to join us at Daish's Hotels!
Salary and Benefits
Competitive salary up to £31,941 per annum based on a 45‑hour week and varied shifts up to 6 days a week. Incremental and performance pay reviews are included. We offer continuous all‑year employment – we don’t close for the winter months! Referral bonus: you’ll split £100 if you refer a friend.
Hours include evenings, weekends and bank holidays, but our kitchen team finishes no later than 8:30 pm. Breakfast shifts start from 7 am.
Daish's Hotels are flexible employers, facilitating a healthy work‑life balance. We provide mental wellbeing and financial assistance, plus an extra paid day off for your birthday.
Other benefits include a "Take your family on a Daish's holiday" scheme for as little as £105 per holiday (4 nights, breakfast, dinner, room, travel and entertainment all included).
Responsibilities
As our Sous Chef, you will be responsible for preparing high‑quality meals for up to 150 guests within a standard 45‑minute service window for both breakfast and dinner. Full training is provided in managing our kitchens, working with set menus, and ensuring all meals are prepared to the highest standards of taste, presentation, and food safety. You will be part of our Daish's Training Academy.
Skills and Attributes
* Producing food as directed by the head chef and, independently, creating your own dishes as part of the kitchen team.
* Assisting in the implementation of menus with new or existing creations, ensuring variety and quality of servings for our guests.
* Working in conjunction with the Head Chef to maintain equipment required for the delivery of service standards.
* Training new staff members.
* Assisting with monthly stocktaking if required.
* Assisting with daily stock replenishment if required.
* Maintaining all required legislative records such as the SFBB log and labelling systems so that internal and external inspections can be carried out at any time.
* Being aware of company Health & Safety policy in your workplace and assisting others to maintain a safe working environment.
* Experience of working in a commercial kitchen environment.
* Ability to manage tasks and responsibilities suitable to the role.
* A good working knowledge of culinary trends and optimized kitchen processes.
* Enthusiastic, confident and competent.
* Ability to multi‑task and maintain performance level under pressure.
* Learning and continuing the values of the organisation and a desire to contribute to them.
* Working knowledge of Health and Safety issues relating to kitchen working environments.
* Experience of catering for a Coaching Hotel operation is desirable.
About Daish's Hotels
We are Daish’s Holidays, a fast‑growing family‑run holiday operator with 12 stunning hotels across the UK and a fleet of our own luxury coaches. We continue to grow at a rapid rate with many exciting opportunities on the horizon for our fantastic teams. Our core values lay at the heart of what we do: Clean and Comfortable Accommodation, Good Food, Great Entertainment, Friendly Service.
The company is one of the industry leaders in providing the best value‑for‑money holidays in the market. Routinely winning awards for customer service excellence, 6 of our hotels have won TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards for 2023 and we have recently been nominated in the 2023 British Travel Awards for the Best Company for UK Coach/Touring Holidays Award!
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